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Submitted to Contest #32
Caroline anxiously rushed into the restaurant and saw Missy already seated at their regular table. She skirted the other patrons with practiced ease and slid into her empty seat across from her closest friend.“Tell me you're not mad,” she pleaded as she noticed the look of displeasure on Missy's usually smiling face. “I am so sorry I made you wait.”“Why didn't you call?” Missy responded a bit snippily. “It's been over twenty minutes.”“Missy,” Caroline said in a reasonable tone, looking patiently at her friend. She noted when Missy recalled e...
Submitted to Contest #31
“Oh, crap.”“What is it, honey?” Jennie's husband asked absently from his seat on the couch where he perused his phone.Jennie paused, knowing he wouldn't like her response. “I'm out of cigarettes,” she responded crankily.He looked up and gave her what she considered the “stink-eye”. “Good,” he announced. “Maybe you can quit now.”She frowned at him, annoyed because he sounded like a broken record when it came to her dirty little vice. She didn't smoke all the time, but when she felt like it, she did. She hated when he got so judgmental about i...
Submitted to Contest #30
It happened on a Tuesday.Willa and her sister, Paula took their children to the local aquarium during school vacation. The two older ones ran herd on the youngest as they watched sharks and stingrays. Paula recounted her latest adorable story about her little one's newest accomplishment while Willa listened with amused fondness. Willa's phone buzzed. In exasperation at the interruption, she dug it out of her purse, believing it to be her husband again asking for pictures. She already sent him some twice.The readout on the face of her phone c...
Submitted to Contest #29
His eyes were the brownest eyes I had ever seen. But they never seemed to notice me.Sure I'd liked boys before. I had been crushing on cuties since I was two-years-old. My mom even kept the kissing pictures to prove it. But Derek was different. The way he made me feel was different. He became my first.I found tenth grade difficult. Schoolwork never presented much of a challenge for me and I made plenty of friends that year. But I wanted a boyfriend. One with whom I could fall in love. I was ready to stop sitting on the sidelines and really g...
Submitted to Contest #28
The bright pink stain moved rapidly across the window of the wand, smearing a line across the control box and a glaring addition symbol in the test area. I stared at it for about three seconds before I thought, The box says this takes a full minute to work. What is happening here?I took the stick and left the bathroom, my eyes wide and stunned. My soon to be ex-husband sat on “our”” king-sized bed, staring at me with curiosity.“Well?” he said.“It's positive,” I revealed. I sat down next to him, test in hand, which indicated how in shock I wa...
Submitted to Contest #27
Yun Li watched at the door while her husband, Chao typed furiously away on the computer keyboard. If caught downloading these files, they would go to prison. Or worse.If not so important, Yun Li never would have involved Chao. Her brilliant husband worked a good job at an electronics company, yet he risked everything to help prove a theory. Unfortunately, she acted like a dog with a bone and could not stop obsessing once the idea came into her head.“How is it?” she asked anxiously, afraid the security guard they eluded would walk their way s...
Submitted to Contest #26
The pressure was enormous. Always such a push to create more, to reach higher, to accomplish better. Linus Herstrum wished it came as easily as people expected of him. If only they knew what really went on up inside of his head.Electronic engineering was a growing field with college graduates coming in to do the project grunt work in droves. Very few would ever have original practical ideas with a working proposal. It took a brilliant mind, not a smart one, to see the working parts of a dream. Linus worked with some of the most spectacularly...
Submitted to Contest #25
Priscilla watched the long, slow burn of the cigarette in her left hand between her first two fingers with something akin to hatred. And desire. The taste of each draw was like poison on her tongue and the air she breathed in, a concoction of waiting death. She exhaled, nearly unable to wait to get the stained filter back up between her lips for another draw. After a few more puffs, she crushed the half-smoked stick against the nearby ashtray in disgust. It joined the myriad of other barely used cigarettes which littered the tray atop the pi...
Submitted to Contest #24
Run faster! Beth-Ann thought as she ducked between trees, hopping over fallen logs.She might have trained to be one of the best, but she was being chased by someone as well-trained. The heavily falling snow was an unwelcome curse, leaving a trail of footprints to follow while obscuring her vision to the pitfalls before her. The cold didn't matter, since her blood was running so high, it heated her up from the inside out. But she needed to find a place with people, a modicum of safety until she could get her bearings.Beth-Ann traversed up a s...
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